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A26478	A testimony of antiquity shewing the ancient faith in the Church of England, touching the sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord here publickly preached, and also received in the Saxons time, above 600 years agoe.; Sermo de sacrificio in die Pascae. English	Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.; Joscelyn, John, 1529-1603.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.	1675 (1675)	Wing A677; ESTC R38168	20,773	42

Aethelwolde was Aelfrick traded up in learning as he witnesseth of himself in the Latine Preface of his Saxon Grammer where speaking of his interpreting Latine words he writeth thus Scio multis modis verba posse interpretari sed ego simplicem interpretationem sequor fastidium vitandi causa Si alicui tamen displicuerit nostra interpretatio dicat quomodo vult Nos contenti sumus sicut didicimus in Scholis venerabilis praesulis Aethelwoldi qui multos ad bonum imbuit I know that words may be expounded diverss waies but for to avoid lothsomness I do follow the plain Interpretation Which if any shall mislike he may do as he thinketh best but we are content to speak as we have learned in the Schools of the most worthy Bishop Aethelwolde who hath been a good Instructor to many or who hath brought up many to good This he writeth of himself So upon this his education in the Schools of Aethelwolde he became afterward to be an earnest lover and a great setter forwards of Monkery and therefore no less busie writer and speaker against the Matrimony of Priests in his time For which respect he was afterward so regarded that he was made by Oswalde Bishop of Worcester as reporteth John Capgrave the First Abbot of St. Albons newly restored and replenished with Monks and also made Abbot of Malmesbury by King Edgar as reporteth William of Malmesbury in the life of Aldelmus And truly he calleth himself Abbot in diverse of his Epistles although he never named of what place as in that he writeth Egneshamensibus fratribus de consuetudine Monachorum To the Monks of Egnesham of the order and manner of Monks and in this he writeth to Wulfstane Arch-bishop of York and in another against Priests Matrimony sent to one Sigeferth with whom was an Anker abideing which defended the Marriage of Priests affirming it to be lawful The Epistle is in the Saxon tongue and in our English thus Aelfrick Abbot doth send friendly salutation to Sigeferth It is told me that I teach otherwise in my English writings then doth thy Anker teach which is at home with thee For he saith plainly that it is a lawful thing for a Priest to Marry and my writings doth speak against this c. Thus as well in his own Epistles as in all other books of Sermons in the Saxon tongue that I have seen I find him alwaies called Abbot and only so called Howbeit John Capgr●v● who 〈◊〉 together into one Volume the lives 〈…〉 the life of Oswalde that Aelfrick last of all advanced to the Arch-Bishops See of Canterbury In aliis inquit Angliae partibus insignes Ecclesias ob praefixam causam Clerieis evacuavit eas viris monastica institutionis sublimavit quorum haec nomina sunt Eeclesia S. Albani S. Aetheldredae Virginis in Eli ea quae apud Beamfledam constituta honorabilis habebatur Instituit enim in Ecclesia S. Albani Aelfricum Abbatem qui ad Archiepiscopatum Cantuariensem postea sublimatus fuit In other parts of England Oswald avoided out of the most notable Churches the Clarks and advanced the same places with men of the order of Monks whose names be these S. Albons The Church of the Virgin S. Aetheldrede in Ely and that which is at Beamfieot reputed very famous He did appoint Abbot in S. Albons Aelfrick who was afterwards promoted to the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury Truly this Aelfrick we here speak of was equal in time to * Elfrick Arch-bishop of Canterbury as may certainly appear to him that will consider when Wulfstane Arch-bishop of York and Wulfsine Bishop of Scyrburn lived unto whom Aelfrick writeth the Saxon Epistles from which the words concerning the Sacrament hereafter following be taken And the certainty of this consideration may well be had out of William Malmesbury De Pontificibus and out of the Subscriptions of Bishops to the Grants Letters-Pattents and Charters of Aethelrede who raigned King of England at this time Howbeit whether this Aelfrick and Aelfrick Arch-bishop of Canterbury was but one and the same man I leave it to other mens judgment further to consider for that writing here to Wulfstane he nameth himselfe but Abbot and yet Aelfrick Arch-bishop of Canterbury was promoted to that his Arch-bishop Stoole six yeares before that Wulstane was wade Arch-bishop of York as is declared most manifestly in the Histories of Symeon of Durham Roger Hoveden The Histories of Rochester Flores Historiarum Thomas Stubbs in his History of the Arch-bishops of York and in all other most Ancient Histories as well written in the old Saxon tongue as in Latine Moreover in many Deeds and Writings of Gifts made by King Aethelrede when Aelfrick subscribeth as Arch-bishop of Canterbury then in them is one Aldulphus Wulfstanes predecessour named Arch-bishob of York and Wulfstane himself subscribeth but as an inferiour Bishop But be it that this Aelfrick was onely Abbot and not Arch-bishop of Canterbury yet this is also most true that beside the praise of great Learning and of being a most eloquent interpreter for which William of Malmesbury doth greatly commend him he was also of such credit and estimation to the liking of that age in which he lived that all his Writings and chiefly these his Epistles were then thought to contain sound doctrine and the Bishops themselves did judge them full of right good Counsel Preceptes and Rules to govern thereby their Clergy and therefore did most earnestly request to have these Epistles sent unto them as do well appear by Two short Latine Epistles set before the Saxon Epistles whereof the one is sent to Wulfsine Bishop of Scyrburne the other to Wulfstane Arch-bishop of York And after this also Bishops of other Churches among other Canons that they collected out of general and particular Councels out of the Books of Gildas out of the Penitentials of Theodorus Arch-bishop of Canterbury out of the Extracts of Egberhtus the Fourth Arch-bishop of York from Paulinus out of the Epistles of Alcuinus teacher to Charles the great and to conclude out of the Writings of the Fathers of the Primitive Church among other Canons I say they collected together for the better ordering of their Churches they do place among them also these Two Epistles of Aelfrick as is to be seen in Two books of Canons of Worcester Library whereof the one is all in the Old Saxon Tongue and there these Epistles of Aelfrick be in the same Tongue the other is for the most part all in Latine and is intituled Admonitio spiritualis doctrinae where these Epistles be in the Latine Tongue and be joyned together for an Exhortation to be made of the Bishop to his Clergy There is also a like book of Canons of Exeter Church where these two Epistles in Latine be appointed insteed of two Sermons to be Preached Ad Clericos Presbyteros to the Clerks and Priests and the Epistles be also in the same book in the Saxon Tongue And this book was given

life before that the last day of the universal resurrection do appear If we cannot search out throughly all the mysterie of Christs Incarnation then ought we to betake the rest unto the might of the Holy Ghost with true humilitie and not to search rashly of that deep secretness above the measure of our understanding They did eat the Lambs flesh with their loynes girt In the loines is the lust of the bodie And he which will receive that housel shall cover that concupiscence and take with chastitie that holy receipt They were also shod What be shoes but of the hides of dead beasts We be truly shod if we follow in our steps and deeds the life of men departed which please God with keeping of hiscommandements They had Staves in their hands when they eat This stafe signifieth a carefulness and a diligent overseing And all they that best know and can should take care of other men and stay them up with their help It was injoyned to the eaters that they should eat the Lamb in haste For God abhoreth slouthfulness in his servants And those he loveth that seek the joy of everlasting life with quickness and hast of mind It is written Prolong not to turn unto God least the time pass away through thy slow tarrying The eaters might not break the Lambs bones No more might the Souldiers that did hang Christ break his holy legs as they did of the two Theeves that hanged on either side of him And the Lord r●se from death sound without all corruption and at the last judgment they shall see him whom they did most cruelly wound on the Cross This time is called in the Hebrew tongue Pasca and in Latine Transitus and in Enghish a Passover because that on this day the people of Israel passed from the land of Aegypt over the Red sea from bondage to the Land of promise So also did our Lord at this time depart as saith John the Evangelist from this world to his heavenly Father-Even so we ought to follow our head and to go from the devil to Christ from this unstable world to his stable kingdom Howbeit we should first in this present life depart from vice to holy virtue from evil manners to good manners if we will after this corruptible life go to that eternal life and after our resurrection to Christ. He brings us to his everliving Father who gave him to death for our sins To him be honour and praise of well-doing world without end Amen This Sermon is found in diverss Books of Sermons written in the old English or Saxon tongue whereof two books be now in the hands of the most Reverend Father the the Arch-bishop of Canterbury Here followeth the words of Aelfricke Abbot of St. Albons and also of Malmsbery taken out of his Epistle written to Wulfsine Bishop of Scyrburn It is found in a book of the old Saxon tongue wherein be XLIII Chapters of Canons and Ecclesiastical Constitutions and also Liber Poenitentialis that is a Penitential book or Shrift book divided into Four other books the Epistle is set for the 30. Chapter of the Fourth book Intituled in the Saxon tongue be preost sinothe that is a Synod concerning Priests and this Epistle is also in a Canon book of the Church of Exeter SOme Priests keep the housel that is hallowed on Easter day all the year for sick men But they do greatly amiss because it waxeth hoary And these will not understand how grievous pennance the Penitential book teacheth by this if the housel become hoary and rotten or if it be lost or be eaten of Mise or of beasts by negligence Men shall reserve more carefully that holy housel and not reserve it too long but hallow other of new for sick men alwaies within a week or a fortnight that it be not so much as hoary For so holy is the housel which to day is hallowed as that which on Easter day was hallowed That housel is Christs body not bodily but ghostly Not the body which he suffered in but the body of which he spake when he blessed bread and wine to housel a night before his suffering and said by the blessed bread This is my body and again by the holy wine This is my blood which is shed for many in forgivness of sins Vnderstand now that the Lord who could turn that bread before his suffering to his body and that wine to his blood ghostly that the self same Lord blesseth daily through the Priests hands bread and wine to his ghostly body and to his ghostly blood Here thou seest good Reader how Aelfrick upon finding fault with an abuse of his time which was that Priests on Easter day filled their housel box and so kept the bread a a whole year for sick men took an occasion to speak against the bodily presence of Christ in the Sacrament So also in another Epistle sent to Wulfstane Arch-bishop of York he reprehending again this overlong reserving of the housel addeth also words more at large against the same bodily presence His words be these SOme Priests fill their box for housel on Easter day and so reserve it a whole year for sick men as though that housel were more holy then any other But they do unadvisedly because it waxeth black or altogether rotten by keeping it so long space And thus is he become guilty as the book witnesseth to us If any do keep the housel too long or loose it or Mise or other beasts do eat it see what the Penetential book sayeth by this So holy is altogether that housel which is hallowed to day as that which is hallowed on Easter day Wherefore I beseech you to keep that holy body of Christ with more advisement for sick men from Sonday to Sonday in a very clean box or at most not to keep it above a fortnight and then eat it laying other in the place We have an example hereof in Moses books as God himself hath commanded in Moses law How the Priests should set on every Saterday twelve loaves all new baked upon the Tabernacle the which were called Panes praepositionis and those should stand there on Gods Tabernacle till the next Saterday and then did the Priests themselves eat them and set other in the place Some Priests will not eat the housel which they do hallow But we will now declare unto you how the book speaketh by them Presbyter missam celebrans non audens sumere sacrificium accusante conscientia sua Anathema est The Priest that doth say Mass and dare not eat the housel his conscience accusing him is accursed It is less danger to receive the housel then to hallow it He that doth twice hallow one Host to housel is like unto those Hereticks who do Christen twice one child Christ himself blessed housel hefore his suffering He blessed the bread and brake thus speaking to his Apostles Eat this bread it is my body And again he blessed one Chalice

A TESTIMONY OF ANTIQUITY Shewing The Ancient Faith of the Church of England Touching the SACRAMENT Of the Body and Blood of the LORD Here Publickly Preached And also received in the Saxons time above Seven Hundred years agoe Jeremiah 6. Go into the streets and inquire for the old way and if it be the good and right way then go therein that ye may find rest for your souls But they say we will not walk therein OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the University Anno Dom. 1675. The Preface to the Christian Reader GREAT Contentions hath now been of long time about the most comfortable Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ our Saviour In the Inquisition and determination whereof many be charged and condemned of Heresie and reproved as bringers up of new Doctrine not known of old in the Church before Berengarius time who taught in France in the daies when William the Norman was by Conquest King of England and Hildebrand otherwise called Gregorius the Seventh was Pope of Rome But that thou mayest know good Christian Reader how this is advouched more boldly then truly in especial of some certain men which be more ready to maintain their old judgment then of humilitie to submit themselves unto a truth here is set forth unto thee a Testimony of very Ancient time wherein is plainly shewed what was the judgment of the Learned men in this matter in the daies of the Saxons before the Conquest First thou hast here a Sermon or Homelie for the holy day of Easter written in the old English or Saxon speech which doth of set purpose and at large intreat of this Doctrine and i●●ound among many other Sermons in the same old speech made for other Festival daies and Sondaies of the year and used to be spoken orderly according to those daies unto the people as by the books themselves it doth well appear And of such Sermons be yet many books to be seen partly remaining in private mens hands and taken out from Monasteries at their dissolution partly yet reserved in the I ibraries of Cathedral Churches as of Worcester Hereford and Exeter From which places diverse of these books have been delivered into the hands of the most Reverend Father Matthew Arch-bishop of Canterbury by whose diligent search for such writings of History and other Monuments of Antiquitie as might reveal unto us what hath been the state of our Church in England from time to time these things that be here made known unto thee do come to light Howbeit the Sermons were not first written in the old Saxon tongue but were Translated into it as it should appear from the Latine For about the end of a Saxon book of LX Sermons which hath about the middest of it this Sermon against the bodily presence be added these words of the Translator writ in Saxon and thus Englished He let pass many good Gospels which he that list may Translate For we dare not enlarge this book much further least it be over great and so cause to men lothsomness through his bigness And in another book containing some of the Saxon Sermons it is also thus written in Latine In ho● codicillo continentur duodecim Sermones Anglicae quos accepimus de libris quos Aelfricus Abbas Anglicè transtulit In this book be comprised 12 Sermons which we have taken out of the books that Aelfrick Abbot Translated into English In which words truly there is also declared who was the Translator to wit one Aelfrick And so he doth confess of himself in the Preface of his Saxon Grammer where he doth moreover give us to understand the number of the Sermons that he Translated thus His words be in Saxon and thus in English I Aelfrick was desirous to turn into our English tongue from the art of Letters called Grammer this little book after that I had Translated the Two books in Fourscore Sermons But howsoever it be now manifest enough by this above declared how that these Sermons were Translated I think notwithstanding that there will hardly be found of them any Latine books being I fear me utterly perished and made out of the way since the Conquest by some which could not well brooke this Doctrine And that such hath been the dealing of some partial Readers may partly hereof appear There is yet a very Ancient book of Canons of Worcester Library and is for the most part all in Latine but yet intermingled in certain places even three or four leaves together with the old Saxon tongue and one place of this book handleth this matter of the Sacrament but a few lines wherein did consist the chief point of the Controversie be rased out by some Reader yet consider how the corruption of him whosoever he was is bewrayed This part of the Latine book was taken out of two Epistles of Alfricks before named and were written of him as well in the Saxon tongue as the Latine The Saxon Epistles be yet wholely to be had in the Librarie of the same Church in a book written all in Saxon and is Intituled A Book of Canons and Shrift book But in the Church of Exeter these Epistles be seen both in the Saxon tongue and also in the Latine By the which it shall be easie for any to restore again not only the sense of the place rased in Worcester book but also the very same Latine Words And the words of these two Epistles so much as concern the Sacramental bread and wine we here set immediately after the Sermon First in English then the words of the second in English and Latine delivering them most faithfully as they are to be seen in the books from whence they are taken And as touching the Saxon writings they be set out in such form of Letters and dark speech as was then used when they were written Translated also for our better understanding into our common and usual English speech 〈◊〉 now it remaineth we do make known who this Aelfrick was whom we here speak of in what age he lived and in what estimation He was truly brought up in the Schools of Aethelwolde Bishop of Winchester Aethelwolde I mean the Elder and great Saint of Winchester Church So Canonized because in the daies of Edgar King of England he conspired with Dunstane Arch-bishop of Canterbury and Oswalde Bishop of Worcester to expel out of the Cathedral Churches throughout all England the Married Priests which then were in those Churches the old dwellers as writeth Renulphus Cestren●is in his Polli●ronicon and to set up of new the Religion or rather Superstition Hipocrisie of Monks after that the same had been a long time by the just judgment of God utterly abolished the Danes spoyling them and cruelly burning them in their houses as is at large and plentifully confessed in the Historie of their own Churches For this new rearing up of Monkery is Aethelwolde called in most Histories Pater Monachorum the Father of Monks Under this